Systems Reliability Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Systems Reliability Engineer to join our team, focusing on system-level reliability, verification, and risk reduction for our next-generation autonomous weapon platforms. This role sits closer to systems engineering than a traditional full-time reliability function and is responsible for defining how we evaluate system performance, analyzing test data, identifying failure modes, and driving clear pass/fail conclusions across hardware and software.

Responsibilities

• Define system-level reliability goals, risk-based verification priorities, and failure-focused evaluation criteria for autonomous weapon platforms.
• Identify reliability-critical tests, stress cases, and operating conditions needed to expose failure modes before fielding.
• Analyze test and field data to identify failure modes, performance limits, degradation patterns, and reliability risks, and translate results into clear technical conclusions and recommended actions.
• Lead structured root-cause investigations for reliability failures across electrical, mechanical, software, and controls interfaces.
• Develop methods for reliability trending, failure categorization, and corrective-action tracking so the team can measure reliability growth over time.
• Support requirements verification by ensuring reliability risks, failure criteria, and hazard-informed concerns are reflected in system requirements and verification methods.
• Work with systems, mechanical, electrical, and software engineers to improve design robustness, observability, maintainability, and failure tolerance.
• Help define corrective actions, retest plans, and closure criteria for reliability-related issues.
• Contribute to hazard, risk, and mishap-informed engineering work, including reliability-focused systems analysis aligned with MIL-HDBK-781 style thinking.
• Drive a stronger reliability culture by improving failure ownership, analysis quality, corrective-action discipline, and technical follow-through across programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience in reliability engineering, systems engineering, failure analysis, verification, or engineering analysis.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-882 or comparable system safety and risk-analysis frameworks.
• Experience identifying failure modes, reliability risks, and corrective actions from test or field data.
• Experience with environmental, performance, qualification, or durability-style testing and the practical challenges of collecting useful data in real test conditions.
• Comfort working across mechanical, electrical, software, and systems teams to improve reliability and technical rigor.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of improving reliability, failure response, or risk-informed engineering rigor in mission-critical systems.
• Experience with requirements management in JAMA or DOORS.
• Experience developing reliability measures such as MTBF and Operational Availability.
• Intellectual curiosity driving you to consistently find failure patterns and weak assumptions that others would miss.

Skills

• Hands-on, technically rigorous approach to reliability engineering.
• Structured validation and analysis skills.
• Environmental and performance testing expertise.
• Safety-minded systems thinking.

Benefits

Competitive salary
ACS Equity Package
Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Allen Control Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer